i think the problem was that we did not have -- i liked mitt romney. i think he was a error good man. i think he would have made a great president. but he was not a man who was fluent in conservative. it was a second language. he was not the best advocate. he was best of the field that we had, but it was a very weak field. what encourages me and what i think we have to stick stick to our principles, we have a rising generation of articulate, philosopheically fluent conservative it's paul ryan, marco rubio, ted cruz coming into the senate and the governor, scott walker. all across the board, mitch daniels, jeb bush, who will be there in 2016. i predict that the field of candidates in 2016 will be as strong as the field of republican candidates in 1980, which was astonishingly strong -- reagan, bush syren, bob dole. it was a whole generation of admirable and i think the rank will be improved and the message will be much stronger. so the idea is not to become a second liberal party. it is to be conservative and do it better. i think the generation is at h